As many as 200 workers could have been killed after a tunnel under construction at North Korea’s nuclear test site collapsed, Japanese news reports said on Tuesday.
The Yohap News Agency said about 100 people were tapped inside the unfinished tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
Japan’s TV Asahi’s said an additional 100 people could have been killed while trying to rescue those trapped.
Reports have not detailed exactly when the incident happened or given a confirmed death toll.
The Yohap report suggested experts had warned the test site must have become “fatigued and unstable” following six nuclear tests.
On Monday, the chief of South Korea’s weather agency Korea Meteorological Administration, Nam Jae-cheol, said during a parliamentary meeting that another nuclear blast could trigger a collapse of the North’s mountainous test site and a leak of radioactive materials, the agency said.
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